Eversource Employee From Derby Honored For Work At CT State Police Academy

MERIDEN, CT — A team of six Eversource employees recently received the Eversource Customer Excellence Award by the company for creating an electrical safety training “mockup” at the Connecticut State Police Academy in Meriden, Eversource announced.

The mockup, equipped with overhead lines, poles, and transformers looks like the equipment you see on the street but is not live, so that state police recruits and troopers can train for potential real-life electrical emergency scenarios.

All six employees were recognized "for going above and beyond their usual scope of work to provide superior customer service."

Honored were lineworkers Craig Crowley of Torrington, Cliff Philipp of Bolton, Andrew Steffens of Stratford, and Mike Suvoski of Derby, who performed the construction of the project. Also honored were Jim Pagliaro, a supervisor in electric field operations from Trumbull and Warren Rogers, a safety supervisor for Eversource, from East Haddam.

"It’s important to me," said Rogers, who teaches hundreds of electrical safety classes to first responders across the state, in a statement. "The reason we donated the equipment is to prevent any officers from losing their lives in the field from an electrical accident."

Eversource officials said the company was happy to partner with the state police on this project. In addition to constructing the mockup, Eversource also provided a lesson plan detailing multiple electrical emergency scenarios for the academy to train for using the equipment.

Photo: From left to right, Eversource lineworkers Andrew Steffens, Mike Suvoski, Craig Crowley, and Cliff Philipp, with safety supervisor Warren Rogers, and Jim Pagliaro, a supervisor in electric field operations. Photo 2 is the "mockup" they created. Photo credit: Eversource